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Strasbourg Music Festival 2014 cancelled due to poor ticket sales

The Festival de Musique de Strasbourg has been cancelled just
days before it was due to commence on 8 June due to poor advance
ticket sales. The festival’s original schedule of 33 concerts had
already been reduced to 15 concerts in April when it was deemed the
ambitious programme would require twice the allotted budget.

It has also been reported that event organiser, the Society of
Friends of Music in Strasbourg, has been running a substantial
deficit.

Artists due to appear during the week-long event included Sir
John Eliot Gardiner and his English Baroque Soloists, the Dresden
Philharmonic Orchestra under Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, pianist
Krystian Zimerman and the Europa Barrocca String Quartet.

The Strasbourg Music festival was founded in 1932 and is the
oldest classical music festival in France. The first festival was
opened by the Berlin Philharmonic under the baton of Wilhelm
Furtwängler.